FDST 363 Heat and Mass Transfer
FDST 465/865 Unit Operations in Food Engineering
FDST 951 Advanced Seminar
Research Area:
Research responsibilities are in the broad area of food and bioproducts engineering with particular attention on value-added processing of agricultural commodities and physical properties determination. Concentration of research effort has been on property evaluation and modification of biopolymeric films, refining of grain sorghum to recover, high-value lipids, and enhancing food safety through control of foodborne disease agents.
Five Selected Publications:
Hwang, K.T., C.L. Weller, S.L. Cuppett and M.A. Hanna. 2004. Policosanol contents and composition of grain sorghum kernels and dried distillers grains. Cereal Chem. 81(3):345-349.
Wang, L.J., G.M. Ganjyal, C.L. Weller, D.D. Jones and M.A. Hanna. 2004. Finite element modeling of fluid flow, heat transfer and melting of biomaterials in a single-screw extruder. J. Food Sci. 69(5)212-223.
Carr, T.P., C.L. Weller, V.L. Schlegel, S.L. Cuppett, D.M. Guderian, Jr. and K.R. Johnson. 2005. Grain sorghum lipid extract reduces cholesterol absorption and plasma non-HDL cholesterol concentration in hamsters. J. Nutr. 135(9):2236-2240.
Amézquita, A., L. Wang and C.L. Weller. 2005. Finite element modeling and experimental validation of cooling rates of large ready-to-eat meat products in small meat-processing facilities. Trans ASAE 48(1):287-303.
Weller, C.L., K.T. Hwang and B.J. Schmidt. 2006. Yield comparisons of different methods of waxy fraction extraction from grain sorghum. Food Sci. Biotechnol. 15(5):786-791.
